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Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

Author(s): P.S. Ghoshdastidar

ISBN: 9788131533079

Edition: 1st

© Year : 2017

₹399

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 296

Trim Size : 241 x 181 mm

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Computational Fluid Dynamics (abbreviated as CFD) is a subject which deals with solution of fluid dynamics and heat transfer problems using numerical methods which can be programmed on computer. Engineers today can make use of CFD tools to simulate fluid flow and heat transfer phenomena in a design and predict the system performance before manufacturing. The present text introduces CFD to beginners in an easy-to-understand manner.  Advanced students will also find this book useful. This is an invaluable textbook for postgraduate Mechanical, Aerospace, Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering students. Undergraduate students would also find in it a useful reference for their projects.

  • Lucid explanations to enable a student to self-learn.
  • Includes a large number of problems of varying complexity and detailed solution procedures.
  • Emphasis on physical understanding of the problems.
  • Although the book primarily follows finite difference method of discretization it covers also other important methods such as finite volume and finite element.
  • Includes a chapter on advanced topics, e.g., Multigrid Method and Grid Generation.
  • The appendices consist of refresher materials on important numerical methods.
  • Exercise Problems.

1. Introduction

2. Partial Differential Equations

3. Introduction to Finite Difference, Numerical Errors, and Accuracy

4. Numerical Methods for Conduction Heat Transfer

5. Numerical Methods for Incompressible Fluid Flow

6. Numerical Methods for Convection Heat Transfer

7. Advanced Topics

Appendices

Index

P.S. Ghoshdastidar

Dr P.S. Ghoshdastidar is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He obtained his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University in 1978. He worked with Philips India Ltd for one year after his graduation. Subsequently, he obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA, in 1981 and 1984, respectively. Prof. Ghoshdastidar has over 32 years of teaching and research experience at IIT Kanpur. He was also Guest Professor at the Universitat Hannover, Germany, for one year during 2000-2001. He has published more than 95 research papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings and has authored two well-acclaimed books. He is Associate Editor of Heat Transfer Research, a prestigious international journal published by Begell House, Inc., USA. Prof. Ghoshdastidar has won several awards including Institution Prize awarded by the Institution of Engineers (India) in 1995 and A.M. Strickland Prize by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), UK, in 2012.